Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes Crime And Punishment
Updated: May 3
Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes Crime And Punishment
Certainly, here are some quotes from Dostoevsky's famous novel "Crime and Punishment":
1. "Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!"
2. "It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."
3. "If he has a conscience, he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment – as well as the prison."
4. "Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything."
5. "I love mankind, he said, 'but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.'"
6. "It's not the law that is to blame, but the man who interprets it."
7. "Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born."
8. "It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas."
9. "To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself."
10. "I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced."
These quotes encapsulate some of the central themes and ideas explored in "Crime and Punishment", such as morality, guilt, suffering, and redemption.
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